Experiments were carried out sweet pepper variety "Polo Wonder" during two
successive seasons 2001 and 2002 at Fayoum govemorate to evaluate the efficacy of
some compounds as safe alternative compunds against the two spotted spider mite.
Tetranychus arabicus Attiah. Results indicated that among the seven tested alternatives. the highest percent
of reduction in mite moving stages were recorded with Vertimec followed by Vabcomic
which gave more than 85 % percent reduction (92.93 & 86.64 and 87.80 & 86.24) all
over the two tested years. 2001 & 2002. respectively. Sulfo.fine came the least in
this respect with about 70 % reduction (70.15 & 69.91) in mite population in the two
respective years. The rest tested materials were moderate in their effect.